Limelight

Limelight (1952)

Timing: 2:17 (137 min)

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All about film

Video 5

Photo 38

Actors and characters

Release date

1952-10-16

Country

United States

Production

United Artists, Celebrated Productions

Genre

Romance, Drama, Music

Budget

$900 000

Revenue

$1 000 000

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Director

Charlie Chaplin

Actors

Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Norman Lloyd, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Marjorie Bennett, Wheeler Dryden
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Charlie Chaplin

Operator

Karl Struss

Composer

Charlie Chaplin

Artist

Audition

Editing

Joe Inge
All team (35)

• The film was banned from screening in the United States until 1972.
• In the film, Chaplin cast practically all of his relatives. His son, Sydney Chaplin, played the musician Neville. Another son – Charles Chaplin Jr. – played a police officer in the pantomime. His children – Geraldine Chaplin, Michael, and Josephine – played children on the street. Even his stepbrother Wheeler Dryden (as the doctor) and his wife, Una O’Neil, received roles.
• "Limelight" is largely an autobiographical film by Chaplin. Chaplin depicts the days of his youth, when he worked as a music hall performer in London and lived in boarding houses. Chaplin's father, like Calvero, suffered from alcoholism and died at the age of 37. However, the prototype for Calvero was the comedian Frank Tinney, not Chaplin's father.
• In the scene where Calvero is having dinner while simultaneously conversing with Theresa Ambrose, he wipes his mouth with a napkin, rolls it up, and places it on the plate to his left. A minute later, the napkin is already lying on the table, next to his right hand.